Kham then and now. A photoblog showing how eastern Tibet looked in the 1920s and how the same places and people look now. Based on the explorations of botanist Joseph Rock.

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Baihanluo 白汉洛 (Peihanluo or Bahang mission station), Yunnan, 1925.

This picture of the Baihanluo mission station was taken by Joseph Rock in the 1920s for his article about the "Great River Trenches of Asia" in National Geographic, describing the canyons carved out in parallel in NW Yunnan by the Salween (Nujiang), Mekong and Yangtze rivers. The Catholic church built by French missionary priests is almost unchanged today, as can be seen in the picture below. Almost all of the village people are still devout Catholics.

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Dr Joseph Rock was an Austrian-American botanist who explored the Tibetan borderlands of Sichuan and Yunnan in the 1920s and 30s. This is about my travels to revisit the places he described in the National Geographic magazine. Any questions? contact me at beijingweek AT gmail